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School districts throughout the state changed their year-end testing schedules last week after an online glitch prevented students from completing tests.

Nancy Rodriguez, spokeswoman for Kentucky Department of Education, said students across the state will finish with paper and pencil.

“Tuesday and Wednesday several districts reported they were having problems,” Rodriquez said. “The vendor notified us that the problem would be corrected but by Friday we were told that wouldn’t be the case.”

Thousands of Henry Countians will have access to health coverage beginning in 2014, when the Commonwealth expands Medicaid as directed by Governor Steve Behsear.

Beshear announced last week that he would expand the Medicaid health program for 308,000 Kentuckians in concert with the Affordable Care Act. The expansion will create an estimated 17,000 new jobs, $15.6 billion positive economic impact on the state.

A pack of dogs attacked a Henry County couple’s sheep herd May 4, killing seven.

Adriana Plum received a call from her husband Saturday after he witnessed a pack of dogs attack sheep near their home and farm on Jackson Road. Plum said the dogs traveled in a pack frequenting an open field near their farm.

The Henry County Commerce Park located near Campbellsburg exhibits the long process from a shovel-ready site to marketability and economic development.

The park site encompasses 60 acres purchased in 2003 with reclaimed Community Development Block Grant money that Henry County Judge-Executive John Logan Brent said Henry County Fiscal Court initially loaned to the company Electro Wire.

After loan repayment, the county could reuse the money for economic development.

The James Beard Foundation hosted a chef boot camp in Louisville this week focusing on regional food systems and taking the sustainability issue into the kitchen where Henry County farmers’ products matters most.

Two Louisville chefs, Kathy Cary of Lilly’s and Levon Wallace of Proof on Main will join a dozen other chefs from across the nation to participate in the boot camp.